I called TiVo today because I started having some random reboots while playing recordings.

I also noticed that the TiVo rebooted Tuesday while recording The Talk and yesterday while recording the Today show.

The TiVo is also forgetting where I leave off when stopping a playback.

Tivos only solution was to remove my external hard drive and see if the problem goes away. They said it would delete all my 339 recordings. I cried foul and she said to just transfer everything to other rooms. I said what about all the show time, Hbo, lifetime etc that won't transfer and she said oh well. And I don't have enough space on the others anyway.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

I don't think having me delete my 339 recordings is a VALID testing tool. Do you?

Having an external drive only adds to the problem, whenever one of the drives fail, you lose all the recordings since it was attached. If you could transfer/copy them, they could go to another Tivo or PC with Tivo Desktop Plus (not free), or PyTivo, KMTTG.

Most likely, the external drive, its enclosure, or the cable is starting to fail. It may also be due to age, those Tivo Expander drives only last 2-3 yrs.

Both of my Roamio's reboot every since Tivo pushed the latest firmware 20.3.8.1.RC1-USA-6-848, before then the Tivo's were somewhat solid. Way to go tivo!!! I really hope the RC1 does not stand for "release candidate" if it does then what the HELL is Tivo doing pushing beta software out to it's users.

My Roamio Basic reboots more than once an hour while watching MLB.TV. The only solution I know of is to not use MLB.TV on the Roamio. I wonder if it has something to do with the video source not providing enough data at a fast enough pace for Roamio's tastes, although my MLB.TV picture seemed HD or almost HD.

We found an interaction between the box and the service that was causing some random reboots. We made a change to the service last night that should resolve the problem. Please make a connection to the TiVo Service.

If you experience more than one reboot after making the connection to the TiVo Service, please email me your TSN with the subject "Random Reboots". (margret@tivo.com)

to check & see if the tivo rebooted while you're away try turning on the clock by

Select-Play-Select-9-Select while playing a recording.

fingers crossed yesterdays update solves the issue!

I usually just go into Account & System Info/DVR Diagnostics, advance to the bottom for the Cablecard 1 listing, and look at Time Since OOB Tune Start. It's the number of seconds since the last reboot. 86,400 seconds per day.

My three Roamio's have been good the last few days, though only the two Pro's had rebooted recently, the Plus had been up for 52 days last I looked. The Pro's had both been re-booting at least once per week.

Our Mini's are using MoCA. The great room Mini has been the rebooting culprit (at least that's the TiVo we've been watching during the winter) and was noticing at the end of programs, (the last 2 minutes) that we would lose network connection. Just about every show would display this issue.

Since connecting to the TiVo yesterday, we haven't experienced this issue or a reboot.

My TiVo Roamio pro was fine until shortly after an update it started rebooting during recordings on 2/10/14 it has done it about 5 times that I am aware of including last night 3/14/14. After calling tech support and my Tivo checked out fine I was given this silly option to pay 599.99 plus tax and 49.99 fee and I would be shipped a brand new Tivo pro and then I would have to transfer all 41% of my shows onto the new one then send the old one back with a pre paid shipping label then I would receive a refund of over 600 dollars but tech could not be precise on amount just that it would be no less than 600 dollars I said what I have do what and pay what this is just ridiculous I have already shelled out 600 plus tax so I told him I dint think that would work out and I would cross my fingers for Tivo to get this software glitch figured out.

Come on Tivo get this software glitch fixed already! Make sure to include a future software patch to include a fix that would not let the TiVo reboot during a recording!

My crappy Comcast Motorola DVR never had this problem. Come on Tivo get this resolved its not rocket science!

Well, it's actually harder than rocket science, given the fact that Hitler used rockets on England during WW II and we sent a man to the moon in 1969. We didn't get TiVo and ReplayTV until 1999. You do the math! (I read that here in the forums not too long ago, so it must be true.)

Well, it's actually harder than rocket science, given the fact that Hitler used rockets on England during WW II and we sent a man to the moon in 1969. We didn't get TiVo and ReplayTV until 1999. You do the math! (I read that here in the forums not too long ago, so it must be true.)

I agree
Tivo don't know the problems exists till we say the exists now they know and will take time to fix.

I've been with Tivo since 2001 and each box has been the same way, when its new just like an iPhone or Windows OS you have little problems that need to get patched.

But the patch just takes time

Series 1, 2 and now 3 all had issues but all got resolved in due time and in a reasonable time frame.